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Feedback Friday - 25th January 2008
25th January 2008 14:30 Posted by Avatea
New Approach for New Content
A common practice that many game developers use when releasing new content is to schedule fairly large expansions spread out every 3+ months. After these expansions are released, developers spend the next several weeks fixing any issues found or making the final tweaks with the release build, and then start working on the next expansion schedule to be released months down the line. For many game developers this may mean sitting on finished content for months before it is compiled with an expansion and released to players. For the players, it means getting a lot of new content at once, experiencing this content, and anxiously awaiting the next expansion.
The Destination Games Staff has decided that the best plan of action is to not have large expansions, but instead, smaller builds with new content that would be given to players on a more frequent basis. The ultimate goal would be to have a feeling that the game is ever evolving and allow us to give new content and improvements on existing content when it is done, and not make you wait several months. As a result of this change, there will be no giant “Operations”. All of the “Operation” content plans are still there and those features will be released when they are finished instead of waiting for expansion opportunities.
What does this mean for you? Regular content updates on a regular schedule.
1.4 Build Update
Speaking of new content, we wanted to give you an update on the status of the 1.4. patch. We’ve already located several bugs and fixed them internally. The large font issue should get fixed, the line of sight issue is fixed, ‘Traitor on the Run’ should give you a personal waypoint, and more. Most importantly, we’ve corrected the issue that caused several PTS Outages. We hope to have this new version of 1.4 out to you shortly so we can make the final testing pass before it goes to the Live servers.
ROFL - Who says my job isn’t easy?!
And if you didn’t see it in the news thread, TenTonHammer spend a few minutes inside the strange, strange world of US GM ROFL, picking his brain about TR, GM’ing, and working in the game industry. You can read the entire interview here.
Q&A
- Respecs?
Q: When will you give us the ability to reset our attribute points as well as our skill points?
A: Another important note with 1.4 - Due to popular request, cloning now does just that and resets your skill points AND your attribute points. This should allow your new cloned characters to start from scratch completely with the 1.4 build. You still cannot completely change you class however. - Server Transfers? ?
Q: Server Transfers, will they ever be available? I’ve heard about unofficial RP realms, server exclusive events and it’s a little daunting that I miss them with my main characters/clones because I’m somewhere else.What’s the future plans for a paid transfer system?
A: Currently, Tabula Rasa does not provide a character transfer service to any server, including test. It is something we have on our giant list of things to do and when we have an update on the status of this and other account based features, we will advertise it here. - It’s All In Your Mind?
Q: I have questions regarding the new changes to attributes. How will the mind damage bonus affect logos abilities that don’t do direct damage such as turrets, create clone and others.
A: Mind currently does NOT affect turrets, bots, and other ‘pet-class’ entities. You are changing the attributes of YOUR mind, not theirs.
Click on the following links if you want to have a look at the previous Feedback Friday newsposts:
Feedback Friday – 18th January 2008
Feedback Friday – 11th January 2008
Feedback Friday – 4th January 2008
Feedback Friday – 21st December 2007
Feedback Friday – 14th December 2007
Feedback Friday – 7th December 2007
Feedback Friday – 30th November 2007
Feedback Friday – 23rd November 2007
Feedback Friday – 16th November 2007
Feedback Friday – 9th November 2007
Feedback Friday - 2nd November 2007
Feedback Friday - 26th October 2007
Feedback Friday - 19th October 2007
Comments
a nice future addition might be the addition of energy armour. or armour with the kind of reflective graphical look the same as the floors iin the eloh chambers. more mettalic.
any intention to make the footlocker tabbed the same way as the back pack .
ETA, we need ETA
This is great news indeed, actually I thought of this today. Monst of the MMOs I play tend to wait months before bringing out a new patch. This approach is so much better.
Well from one side it is good to have an opportunity to play and enjoy new stuff, but from other side gamers would probably not be able to see any changes in content because they are to small, or they would be good add ons?